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* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Five golden diskettes for a trip to visit the NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of StephenHawking in a machine factory. All the other four kids are insufferable brainiacs like Dexter, but he's not the one who gets the golden diskette - Dee-Dee is. Fortunately for him, each winner was allowed to take a guest with them. Easily the strangest parody piece yet.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Five golden diskettes for a trip to visit the NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of StephenHawking Creator/StephenHawking in a machine factory. All the other four kids are insufferable brainiacs like Dexter, but he's not the one who gets the golden diskette - Dee-Dee is. Fortunately for him, each winner was allowed to take a guest with them. Easily the strangest parody piece yet.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s gone to this particular well many times. They've spoofed the Lickable Wallpaper scene and the "Oompa-Loompas as Wonka's slaves" conceit, and imagined such scenarios as the Oompa-Loompas' writers' room, what would have happened had Veruca Salt actually got an Oompa-Loompa as she wanted, and Charlie Bucket ending up talking the fall for what Mr. Wonka did to the other kids, by the latter's design.

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* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s gone to this particular well many times. They've spoofed the Lickable Wallpaper scene and the "Oompa-Loompas as Wonka's slaves" conceit, and imagined such scenarios as the Oompa-Loompas' writers' room, what would have happened had Veruca Salt actually got an Oompa-Loompa as she wanted, Oompa-Loompa, and Charlie Bucket ending up talking taking the fall for what Mr. Wonka did to the other kids, kids by the latter's design.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s gone to this particular well a few times with skits spoofing (in turn) the Lickable Wallpaper scene, the "Oompa-Loompas as Wonka's slaves" conceit, and the question of how the Oompa-Loompas came up with their {{Crowd Song}}s (turns out they have a writer's room).

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* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s gone to this particular well a few times with skits spoofing (in turn) many times. They've spoofed the Lickable Wallpaper scene, scene and the "Oompa-Loompas as Wonka's slaves" conceit, and imagined such scenarios as the question of how the Oompa-Loompas came up with their {{Crowd Song}}s (turns out they Oompa-Loompas' writers' room, what would have a writer's room).happened had Veruca Salt actually got an Oompa-Loompa as she wanted, and Charlie Bucket ending up talking the fall for what Mr. Wonka did to the other kids, by the latter's design.

* Creator/{{Universal}} had a variation in late 2000-early 2001 with their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4mCW6tm7UA "Million Dollar Movie Game"]]. VHS copies of recent Universal films (including ''Film/BringItOn'', ''Film/BillyElliot'', ''Film/TheWatcher'' and ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'') released to rental outlets had a special code (as seen in the linked video) that you could enter online for a chance to win a variety of prizes including a million dollars, a family vacation or a DVD player.

Since the late [[TheNineties 1990s]], if not before, it's been almost mandatory that an animated show that stays on air long enough will have a ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' parody episode. Live-action shows have taken cracks at it as well. Such parodies usually explicitly mimic the 1971 adaptation ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', owing to its memorable and easily repurposed musical numbers and the idiosyncracies of Gene Wilder's [[TheWonka Willy Wonka]]. Beyond out-and-out retellings of the storyline, spoofs of specific scenes and other shorter-form parodies are popular.

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Since the late [[TheNineties 1990s]], if not before, earlier, it's been almost mandatory that an animated show that stays on air long enough will have a ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' parody episode. Live-action shows have taken cracks at it as well. Such parodies usually explicitly mimic the 1971 adaptation ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', owing to its memorable and easily repurposed musical numbers and the idiosyncracies of Gene Wilder's [[TheWonka Willy Wonka]]. Beyond out-and-out retellings of the storyline, spoofs of specific scenes and other shorter-form parodies are popular.

* ''LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil'' had one of these set in a dildo factory. With TheDevil (voiced by H Jon Benjamin, no less) as Willy Wonka. And yes, the Devil sang songs about dildos while the lucky contest-winning girls toured his room where everything was made out of dildos. He even overreacted when a girl stole a motor for a vibrator.

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* ''LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil'' ''WesternAnimation/LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil'' had one of these set in a dildo factory. With TheDevil (voiced by H Jon Benjamin, no less) as Willy Wonka. And yes, the Devil sang songs about dildos while the lucky contest-winning girls toured his room where everything was made out of dildos. He even overreacted when a girl stole a motor for a vibrator.

* For National Ice Cream Day 2017, [=McDonald's=] restaurants in the U.S. offered a free vanilla soft serve cone to every customer -- one of which was served in a gilded "Golden Arches Cone". The person lucky enough to receive this won free soft serve ice cream for life.

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